By Imogen Lamport
.This morning listening to the radio I heard mention of a study that showed that shopping helps you live longer.  Excited I became (in the words of Yoda), so of course got online to see if I could find the source of the study.  It turns out the research is published in the Journal of Epidemilology and Community Health and is a legitimate one.  But the results are not quite what the brief mention on the radio news led me to believe.
Turns out, shopping does help you live longer, if you're already old, and we're talking food shopping, not clothes shopping.  You can  read about the study here if you're interested.
But it did lead me to thinking about shopping and how it can connect us to community (which was one... More...